OpenGround Cloud incorporates sophisticated styling interface for mapping datasets, this can be accessed from the Manage Datasets screen, highlight the dataset row in question and press the Style button to display the Map Layer Style screen.

The Manage Datasets command is available from both the System Level and within a project, however for datasets added at system level the style command is only available through the System Level ribbon. For datasets added at project level the style button will be available.

Styles control how features appear on the map. Default styles are applied to the map features. When you add point, line and area features to the map, they appear with default symbol, line, and fill styles.

You can style your mapping data, including themes where the individual features are displayed according to conditions in the style (for instance, colour coding the classification of land) emplying different symbols to represent different forms of historic contamination.

At the top of the Map Layer Style screen the appropriate tabs for the dataset will be enabled, for instance, for point data the Lines and Area tabs will be disabled, for area data the Point and Lines tabs will be disabled.

Under the tab area each row represents a theme to be used to display the mapping dataset. As default no conditions are set, so a single row represents the complete dataset, setting conditions is covered in the Creating Conditional Themes section.

The commands in the bottom left are used to create, copy and delete extra theme conditions for the style:

• Add – The Add button will create a new row to the style.
• Remove – The Remove button will delete the currently selected style row.
• Copy – The Copy button or copy the currently selected style row.